DONNA: at that time, and I hadn’t even been called to the ministry yet!
LARRY: Wow.
DONNA: So in that Italian-American community, somebody invited me over for a spaghetti dinner, and of course I didn’t turn them down; but what I didn’t know is they had a hidden agenda. And my friend said to me, when I got to the house she says, Oh before we eat, there’s a lady sitting on my sofa. Would you cast the devil out of her? LAUGHS
LARRY: Wow.
DONNA: Can you imagine a pre-dinner.
LARRY: Yeah; yeah.
DONNA: casting out of the devil?
LARRY: Yeah CHUCKLES.
DONNA: So I went into the living room, and there was this woman. She was had to be 7-foot tall, had to be almost 350 pounds, solid as a rock. NOT smiling, darkness all over her face.
LARRY: Wow.
DONNA: Didn’t utter a word. And, you know, because a Schambach doesn’t normally back down [CHUCKLING] from a challenge.
LARRY: Yeah; yeah, yeah.
DONNA: I just went after it the way I thought my dad would, you know! And so I squared [CHUCKLING] my shoulders, and In the NAAAME of JESUS, I got that kind of preacher voice.
LARRY: Yeah, yeah.
DONNA: and you know then I’d start slapping her on the back.
LARRY: CHUCKLES
DONNA: and nothing happened!
LARRY: Yeah, yeah.
DONNA: You know, nothing moved, not even a blink! And so I dug in a little deeper.
LARRY: [CHUCKLING] Yeah.
DONNA: and I said, I TAKE AUTHORITY, and I must have taken authority over every demon.
LARRY: Yeah; [CHUCKLING] yeah.
DONNA: I could name: LAUGHING spirits of confusion.
LARRY: LAUGHING Yeah.
DONNA: lying, you know, witchcraft, whatever!
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: Nobody budged. And then I thought, Well I’m going to have to really get violent here.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: and so I took her by her face.
LARRY: Oh my.
DONNA: I tried to squeeze the devil out of her!
LARRY: Don’t do this at home!
DONNA: Do not try this [CHUCKLING] at home.
LARRY: LAUGHS
DONNA: you know. And I left that room defeated.
LARRY: Wow.
DONNA: Larry, because I did every trick in the book to cast that devil out.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: but the Lord was showing me that it’s not in our flesh, it’s not in mimicking somebody doing what somebody else does; but we have to get in touch with the voice of the Holy Spirit.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: And it was about 6 months later, I was in prayer and intercession all day long. I came into church, sat in the back row, and that spirit of intercession came over me.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: And the Pastor of the church, I instinctively SNAPS looked up at him, and he looked at me and said, Go pray for this woman, and I didn’t even have to THINK, Larry.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: I just put my arm around her shoulder, and by the unction of the Holy Spirit.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: said, I take authority over you, you lying devil.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: And she screamed, and hit the floor!
LARRY: Wow; wow.
DONNA: And she was set free immediately. I didn’t’ scream.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: I didn’t have a premeditated thought.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: it just came out of my spirit, and she was CLAPS INSTANTLY set free!
LARRY: Come on.
DONNA: And what the Lord was showing me is, you HAVE that abiding anointing.
LARRY: Yes.
DONNA: you’ve GOT that authority.
LARRY: Yes.
DONNA: but there’s a pump.
LARRY: Yes!
DONNA: that we can prime, and it’s that.
LARRY: Ooh!
DONNA: praying in the Holy Spirit, like Jude says.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: Building yourselves up on your most holy faith,
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: praying in the Holy Ghost. CHUCKLES
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: And I think that’s what we have to learn; that’s a flow.
LARRY: Yes.
DONNA: It’s not something we manufacture; it’s a FLOW.
LARRY: Yeah.
DONNA: out of our spiritual relationship with the Lord.
